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Video game programmer from Chicago. Currently Wildflower Games. Previously Yacht Club Games, Naughty Dog, Hello Games. She/herπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

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Anyway, as always, fuck the Atlantic

03.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This was pre-AI but obviously with AI the problem is even worse and you need to be even more careful and knowledgeable

16.12.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a cyangmou article I'm trying to find about this - he did an image search for "knight helmet" and labeled the results: replica, movie prop, movie prop, video game asset, modern painting, replica, hobby kit... only one or two on the first page was something an actual knight might have worn

16.12.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gertie and her creature companion must venture into dungeons & lush forests on a quest to fulfill a coven’s oath.

Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...

Summon Hints from the Coven: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com

12.12.2025 01:51 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 19
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FINALLY!! πŸ‘€ #TheGameAwards

Subscribe to our Substack for Wildflower updates: wildflowerinteractive.substack.com

See ya Thursday

09.12.2025 18:13 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 9
A well-known meme image of cartoon Sonic saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"

A well-known meme image of cartoon Sonic saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"

The good news is we now know exactly how many words in a row games executives are capable of absorbing: exactly seven. They read exactly the first seven words of the meme

22.08.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

I've been making video games in some form for 20 years, so I wrote an article about my process - and why I don't use an engine.

noelberry.ca/posts/making...

19.05.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 1049 πŸ” 234 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 13

All those things are true, but I also remember my mother telling me how she watched police attack protestors in Grant Park in 1968, then watched news reports about how protestors had attacked the police. Or you can go even further back to Haymarket. It's a very old playbook.

11.06.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

every successful game has at least one fullscreen render buffer doing nothing that the render team completely forgot about until either right before or right after ship

11.06.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't post that much, but hello!

10.06.2025 23:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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my offer to america: we bring woke back

07.04.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 62541 πŸ” 8670 πŸ’¬ 305 πŸ“Œ 247
A screenshot of a Dear ImGui window in C#

A screenshot of a Dear ImGui window in C#

I made a lightweight SDL3 + SDL GPU + ImGui + C# example:
github.com/NoelFB/ImGui...

16.02.2025 06:32 πŸ‘ 146 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

this is adorable

06.02.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Home - Trans Lifeline A resource for coming out to your friends, family, co-workers, and the online world. Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for

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If you are in need of work, please share your portfolio here!

If you are not trans but you see this - donate $5 to Trans Lifeline and I will match your donation!

translifeline.org

29.01.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 1470 πŸ” 1063 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 16

Also Sailor Moon’s mom is 36.

26.01.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#GGST
#Bridget

06.09.2024 14:33 πŸ‘ 1788 πŸ” 427 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 3
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13.01.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans (Published 2019) A surprisingly mainstream movement of feminists known as TERFs oppose transgender rights as a symptom of β€œfemale erasure.”

This article from the 2019 NYT does a pretty good job of discussing the issues with the 2024 NYT! I think a big part of the frustration is seeing the paper adopt a rhetorical mode that it once looked askance on, at the same time the Republican Party ramped up attacks www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/o...

16.07.2024 16:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The private equity playbook - restructure the company so it has to increase revenue quickly or be shut down - isn’t great for any industry but it’s especially disastrous for games, where it may be literally impossible to increase revenue until your next project is ready to release

02.07.2024 21:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

01.07.2024 15:09 πŸ‘ 2948 πŸ” 451 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 56

they can put all the poor people to work building the 50-100 nuclear power plants this is going to require!

the people still out of work can get started on the couple hundred state-of-the-art silicon fabs that they will also need

26.06.2024 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I read a different article but about halfway through it said "this is a project on the scale of the US ramping up for WWII but I think it will happen"

I... have a different forecast here

26.06.2024 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

God damn it this is not wrong

16.06.2024 22:38 πŸ‘ 812 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

Very notable that this is just two years after the Justice Department formally sunsetted the Paramount Decree

12.06.2024 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bonus and this one is 100%, if you’re playing a game and think β€œthis cutscene is so cool, I wish it was gameplay” β€” I guarantee it originally was but something went wrong.

12.06.2024 20:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The answer to β€œwhy didn’t they” is pretty much always β€œwe tried that, but”.

About 5% of the time it’s β€œit wasn’t obvious we needed to do that until we finished this version, and we hit the deadline.”

12.06.2024 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0